A simulation study on the health concerns derived from GSM base station placement
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Muñoz Gea, Juan Pedro; Vales Alonso, Javier; García Haro, Juan; García Castaño, Francisco JavierResearch Group
Grupo Ingeniería Telemática (GIT)Knowledge Area
Ingeniería TelemáticaSponsors
This work has been funded by the Spanish Economy, Industry and Innovation Council under the SOLIDMOVIL project (2I04SU044), by Fundación Séneca (Región de Murcia, Spain) ARENA project (00546/PI/04) and by the Spanish Research Council under the ARPaq project (TEC2004-05622- C04-02/TCM). The authors are also indebted to OPNET Technologies Inc. for granting licenses under the OPNET University program.Publication date
2006-05Publisher
Institute Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Bibliographic Citation
MUÑOZ GEA, Juan Pedro et al. A simulation study on the health concerns derived from GSM base station placement. En: IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (13ª: 2006: Benalmádena, Málaga) Circuits and Systems for Signal Processing, lnformation and Communication Technologies, and Power Sources and Systems: Proceedings. Piscataway: Institute Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2006. Pp. 672 - 675. ISBN 1-4244-0087-2Keywords
Estación baseEMF
GSM
Cuestiones de salud
Efectos biológicos de las microondas
Radio celular
Base stations
Health issues
Biological effects of microwaves
Cellular radio
Abstract
In the last years a great concern has raised among population due to the placement of the base stations (BS) of cellular systems in urban areas. In some cases, it has been addressed with the (re)installation of BSs in far suburban areas. However, in these cases, mobile stations (MS) must raise transmission power. Thus, users may -potentially- suffer a higher radio exposure. In this paper we quantified the variation of the transmission power in this application scenario. The study has been done by means of the OPNET/GSM framework simulation tool. Suitable propagation models and the GSM power control algorithm have been added to the model, in order to compute the MS transmission power in a real environment. Results reveal a significative increment of the MS transmission power when the BS is relocated to suburban areas. Therefore, we conclude that it is necessary to introduce modifications in the GSM network architecture to solve this issue together with the BS placement problem
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